My dad and his parents left Forchheim, Germany, when he was 13 years old. They fled to Australia, while others in their community went wherever they could go to get away from the Nazi killing machine. A friend of my father was a bit older and moved to the U.S. At the end of the war, he was sent back as a soldier to Forchheim to identify Nazis. He thus sent their teacher to prison and saved the local doctor, who by law was required to wear SS black. In the town after the war, there was a serious security incident. A dedicated Nazi youth strung wire across a street, and when a U.S. jeep passed through, the driver was decapitated. Soldiers saw the kid running and shot him. As he was being prepped for surgery to remove a bullet, he begged over and over not to be given any American blood, as it might contain Jewish blood. This was his biggest fear: that some Jew and his blood might save his life.
As antisemitism is a visceral and thus irrational hatred of Jews, it is no surprise when people act like nuts in regards to their dislike or outright hatred of Jews. In the past few decades, Democratic administrations liked to claim that the biggest terror threats came from the Right. Even as Muslim terrorists were blowing up, shooting, and stabbing from sea to shining sea, each year the intelligence apparatus told us that Joey and Billy Bob up in the hills were the real threat to the Republic. And it was the same with antisemitism. Though blacks, Muslims, and leftists were behind most attacks against Jews in the U.S. (and attacks against Jews are the majority of racially-motivated attacks in the country), the FBI and others claimed that some right-wing paramilitary group with eight guys was the real threat. They didn’t want to admit that the problems of Muslim terror and Jew hatred did not end with the Twin Towers, so they blamed the Right, whose percentage of attacks against Jews was always relatively small.
Today, in 2025, we live in a unique time where both extremes of the Left and Right hate and blame the Jews. Sure, they sell it as “Zionists,” but ultimately their hatred is directed at all Jews—as can be seen by attacks on Jews without any discernment for their views on Israel or the war in Gaza. Those on the Left have fully aligned themselves with their Qatari-funded Muslim Brotherhood friends in blaming Israel for all of the world’s problems. Their solution is the destruction of Israel and the death of a lot of Jews. They do not suggest moving Israelis en masse to other countries as the price for a “river to the sea” solution. They don’t suggest that the Jews will continue to live where they are in a brand new country, “Palestine.” No, they simply make it clear that all of the Jews in Israel (for appetizers) need to die so that there will be a Palestinian state and no Jews living in it.
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On the Right, things aren’t much better. It is clear now that Charlie Kirk understood that his TPUSA efforts were bringing many young people back to Christianity as well as Republican identification. He also understood that a large percentage of those who followed him and his organization also saw in their Christian worldview a strong anti-Jewish element. In his last months, Kirk worked to stamp out any antisemitism associated with his movement. His passing and nobody being able to fill his shoes have meant that the antisemitic vein only grows in the “new Republicans” who identify with Groypers. Kirk would have been disgusted with their views, but those who have filled in for him have been far more milquetoast in their approach to the growing intellectual cancer on the young Right.
Those who have asked questions at TPUSA events like to recycle claims that Israel attacks Christians, that Israel made a genocide in Gaza, which is not something that God would want. When bored, they throw in the USS Liberty attack from nearly 60 years ago. None of these accusations hold water. There are no attacks on Christians. Tucker Carlson falsely claimed that Israel bombed multiple churches in Gaza “intentionally,” with the goal of killing Christians. I believe that Israel accidentally hit one church, and there has never been any systematic program against Christians anywhere in Israel—ever. Israel is the only Middle Eastern country where Christians are protected and their numbers are growing. Areas like Bethlehem, transferred from Israel to the Palestinian Authority, have seen massive decreases in Christian populations. There is no persecution of or attacks on Christians. Yet, our new young Republicans would swear otherwise.
And as to genocide, even UNICEF—that hatefully anti-Israel U.N. body—has admitted that there was no such thing. Fighting was long and involved, but Israel killed nine Hamas terrorists for every civilian killed. Carlson and Piers Morgan claimed in Saudi Arabia that Israel was targeting children, but there is no evidence for such a claim. Yes, some terrorists are 15 years old—that’s how they operate. Israel never attacked civilians for sport, something that Hamas did and recorded during its bloodletting in southern Israel at the start of the war. Hamas would love to do a genocide of the Jews; no Israeli politician or general has ever suggested the same on the Palestinians.
As to the USS Liberty, there is a range of opinions—from a mistake in the heat of war to the Liberty actually supplying Egypt with information against Israel. Israel apologized for the attack, and the U.S. accepted the apology. Will the Groypers simply find any sin of any country against the U.S. and hold a permanent grudge? No, they openly claim to love Hitler and only the Jews can do wrong in their eyes.
So, where does this go? Right now, nowhere. In a serious world, the Muslim Brotherhood and its office, CAIR, would be banned in the U.S. as they are banned in the U.A.E. and throughout the Middle East. A serious conservative would make his life’s work to uproot the unwanted antisemitism that has accompanied a religious and political revival on the Right. I don’t expect either of these things to happen. Yes, there are warriors like Ben Shapiro, Douglas Murray, and Sen. Ted Cruz who are fighting against the antisemitic strains in the conservative movement, but I don’t expect it to convince anyone but the already convinced. There is a story in the Talmud of one rabbi telling his colleague that everyone was saying that the latter’s sister was a prostitute. “But, I don’t have a sister.” The response to this claim was, “Go prove that you don’t have a sister.” The MAGA hat-wearing youths who claim that Israel and Judaism attack Christianity will accept nobody’s word or any evidence to the contrary. They are sold on a Jewish libel, and they like it. Who would let reality get in the way of some really good Jew hate?
So who hates the Jews more, the young Right or Left? Those on the Left call for the death of Israelis and Jews. But just as quickly as they joined their new Muslim friends, they can move on to the next cause du jour. Those on the Right have their hatred in their hearts and are in no hurry to get rid of it. Should Jews pack up and leave the States? I don’t think so. That said, I don’t see how things get better until the economy starts roaring and people are too busy making money to waste their time on hating Jews.
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